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Hijacker armed with ball point
By DONALD BABB
SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPl)—The
stewardess of an American
Airlines 747 hijacked to Cuba
with 220 passengers aboard said
today the five-foot-tall Puerto
Rican who took over the plane
was armed with nothing more
lethal than a ballpoint pen.
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Two smaller American Air
lines jets brought the passen
gers to San Juan—their original
destination—after the Cuban
government refused to allow
the fully loaded 747 to take off
from Havana Airport. The 747
carrying the 14-member crew
landed in San Juan three hours
later.
The stewardess, Lucinda
Rawson, 20, Syracuse, N.Y.,
said she was in the upstairs
lounge of the plane when the
man, identified by the Havana
newspaper Granma as Angel
Lugo Casaus, 22, of Ponce,
P.R., came up behind her and
pressed something hard into
her back.
“We’re going to Havana,
Cuba. Take me to the codepit,’’
she quoted him as saying. She
said she did not have the key to
the cockpit and byway of the
intercom told the pilot, Capt.
Oliver Salmella, Braintree,
Mass., about the hijack. Every
one was ordered out of the
lounge and the hijacker refused
to let any of the crew into the
> area, either.
Miss Rawson said he told the
captain if anyone came into the
, lounge “I’ll kill her and shoot
, myself."
She said it was not until they
were on the ground in Havana
that they realize the man was
not armed.
“I saw something long and
hard and covered. It was after
the plane was on the ground
that they determined that the
weapon was a ballpoint pen
attached to a metal comb and
wrapped in a sweater.”
Two sky marshals and an off
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duty FBI agent were on the
plane. They were told of the
ituation, but Salmella said
they decided not to act since
there was no way they could
get into the lounge without
being seen by the hijacker.
Miss Rawson said during the
flight to Havana the man faced
her, but kept his “gun” hand at
her back. She said “All I did
was try to keep him calm.”
Later when the Cuban
government put the passengers
in the former Hilton Hotel in
Havana, those aboard the plane
remarked that the hijacker ate
several meals with them in the
dining room. He remained in
Havana.